Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cleveland Heights, OH, ZIP 44118
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 217 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cleveland Heights, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Cleveland Heights has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Cleveland Heights's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cleveland Heights compares
Cleveland Heights's growing season runs about 217 days, ranking 13,403 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 8 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Cleveland Heights can differ from the 44118 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Cleveland Heights's frost date answer different questions.